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I could not put this down! Whipple has an exceptional ability to convey the emotional lives of her characters with such realism. Not for a minute did any of it feel like fiction; it was like being a fly on the wall. That is until the end. I suspect had this novel been written today the end would be quite different. Still, a 5⭐️read!

This novel has the best description of a cozy happy family Xmas I‘ve ever encountered. Just picture perfect.

A Persephone book really fits my current #Gladstones24 setting. I thought I‘d love this one but was a bit underwhelmed. A man gives up his happy marriage of twenty years for a fling with a younger woman. His wife and their kids are furious - of course. So it‘s all a bit predictable. An okay-ish book for me, except for the ending. I kind of loved that. A light pick.

#StorySettings #Wedding

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#BookBinge #InvolvesaWedding

Read recently but different edition, great narrative.

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

“I think it astonishingly good - complete and sharp an individual” Virginia Woolf

I had always loved the movie and I finally read the book and now I‘m re-watching the movie. They‘re both perfect.
#Persephonebooks

A fascinating '20s time capsule on cooking and hospitality. Though the recipes ranged from utterly mystifying to downright revolting (so much aspic! So many hard-boiled eggs shoved through a sieve!), the prose is lovely. For instance, on weddings: "...goblets of sparkling drink, delicious fragrance of rosemary, lavender, and cedar wood...music, laughter, and the love of friends. What an hour to remember later in the silence and the starlight."

The September Raising the Middlebrow Book Club selection on Goodreads. My second Whipple and I rather enjoyed it! I couldn‘t stop myself from some comparison to the play/movie “The Women”. I kept picturing the main character Ellen as Norma Shearer. It‘s a look at a happy family and marriage where infidelity takes place. The ending was unsatisfactory but I might say the same for “The Women” depending where your sympathies lie.

A couple drama, how Avery and Ellen marriage will be affected after a third person arrived to their lives. It is about infidelity, betrayals but also about second chances to yourself, about friends support. I love that ending, a new perspective, a new start. My first novel by this author and I loved the writing style. I was focused in the story, in the dynamic of all these characters, expecting what would be their decisions. Couldn‘t put it down.

A #Persephone novella about a wedding or more specifically the wedding guests. The book sketches the guests in a minimal way and yet they feel like real people. Most of them are not very likable, including the bride herself, but they feel so real. The mother of the bride tries to arrange all as best as she can but there‘s more than meets the eye!

#192025 #1932

( Pic: Mausoleum Che Guevara, Santa Clara, Cuba)

My, what a wonderful #bookmail ! 😍
This must be the package from you @BarbaraBB 😊